Jude Chehab is a Lebanese-American filmmaker whose feature documentary Q received support from IDA, TFI, and the Sundance Institute. Q won the Albert Maysles award for Best New Documentary Director at Tribeca and the Grand Jury Award for Best First Feature at Sheffield DocFest. Filmmaker Magazine named her one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
Jonna McKone is a producer and artist. She produced All Light, Everywhere (Hulu/Super LTD, Sundance Special Jury Award, 2021) and “Margie Soudek’s Salt and Pepper Shakers” (Sundance, The New Yorker, 2023). Her photography, which explores land and memory, has been supported by the Center for Documentary Studies, Rubys Artist Grant, and the Andy Warhol Foundation’s […]
Joe Peeler directed Bad Press, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression. In 2014, Joe edited the short documentary The Lion’s Mouth Opens, which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. Since then, his work has appeared on Netflix, HBO, FX, ESPN, Hulu […]
Jillian Schlesinger is best known for work on collaborative, youth-driven documentaries Maidentrip (2013 SXSW Audience Award) and Hummingbirds (2023 Berlinale Generation Grand Prix). Fellowships include Sundance/Women In Film, NBCU Original Voices, and Doc Society Co-Creation Cohort. Field of Vision, Ford Foundation, and SFFILM have supported Jillian’s work. She’s currently producing We Are Volcanoes and developing […]
Originally from South Korea, Jean Rheem is an editor and producer whose work has screened at Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW, among others. Her recent films include Bad Press, which won a Special Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival and Accepted, which received an Emmy Award Nomination. Currently, she is editing a feature documentary about Lee Soo-Man, the […]
Bethel’s editing, directing, and producing touch upon recurrent themes of geographic displacement, aging, intimacy, and art-making’s therapeutic potential. His credits include What We Leave Behind, Of Men and War, Acts of Love, Hummingbirds, So Late So Soon, “Blue Room,” and “Some Kind of Intimacy.” He teaches regularly and is available for free weekly feedback sessions with […]
Inaya Graciana Yusuf is an Indonesian-American artist and Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in Oregon. Her most recent work as a picture editor includes Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, Lucy and Desi, The Space Race, Rather, and Join or Die. She is currently directing and editing her feature documentary on Italian director and playwright, Armando Punzo and his prison […]
Hasan Oswald is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. His directorial debut Higher Love won the Slamdance 2020 Grand Jury Award. He aims to capture the human experience through unfettered access and a collaborative approach to create a seamless veneer between filmmaker and participant. His new project Mediha covers the Yazidi genocide and will premiere at DOC […]
Currently a member of the National System of Art Creators in Mexico, Gian Cassini has made himself known in Mexico as an accomplished filmmaker. His first feature film Comala had its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. He is currently working on his next feature Estrellas Migratorias for which he got the support […]
Frances Henderson edited For Ahkeem which won 11 awards including eight “”Best Feature Documentary”” awards, Shut Up and Paint which was shortlisted in the 2023 Academy Awards, and forthcoming features Light Darkness Light and Chewed Gum. Her directorial debut This Much We Know screened at DOC NYC in 2022 and will have a theatrical run […]